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CHERCHEZ LA POIRE by Doug Fitch and Richard Eoin Nash "I've one more dream for you. I was in this room, which was a bedroom, a large bedroom, with no ceiling on it, it just looked out over the open cosmos, in fact I'm not even sure it was connected to the planet but there I was in my bedroom and ... It was a large bed and I was on the edge of it and I was watching television and of course there wasn't really anything on television ... of any interest. And I know that Lou Bakanowsky, my professor, and his wife who I'd never met, are coming over to get me to come to, go to, to take me out to some important occasion that I should be very respectful of and I know that I am not getting ready to go and instead I am watching television that I am not even interested in but I feel compelled to continue to watch television in spite of the fact that I know I should be preparing by putting on the right clothes. So I, I cannot move. And suddenly there's a knock on my door. And I do this little thing, which I always do, which is to say: Oh hi, come on in, yes, absolutely, yes, just make yourself at, you know, just be, try to be overly, overtly charming, I suppose, and I so, just a second, it'll be just a second, I'll be right, ready, and I run into the closet, there was this closet there and I closed the door behind me and there wasn't any light in the cloest and I put on the clothes which I think I'm supposed to be wearing and then I just about open the crack, I open the door and I notice I put on the wrong clothes and I am wearing some orange bellbottomed pants and some pink-flowered shirt, some silly thing, and I can't do it, I can't go out there with this and now I'm fumbling around and you get the right stuff on and it's obviously taking longer than it should have and I go out and they're both standing there now, facing me, and and I say something like "Ok, ready!" and they go, "I'm sorry it's too late." And I'm going "Oh no, no." And they say, "It's too late and now you have to find the pear in the field." And I look out the window and there's this huge field and I'm going "Oh what a beautiful image...the pear in the field. It looks impossible. " And then they left. [Laughs.] So I've been looking for the pear in the field ever since. [Laughs.]" Richard Eoin Nash is a writer and performance artist. His "Heartbreak City Teaser," with artwork by Tom Hopkins, appeared in LPZ 6. Other writings have been published or are forthcoming from mrbellersneighborhood.com, Fictionopolis.com, Ironminds, and in print in The Burning Bush, PAJ, and TRANS>. He has performed in New York at Tonic, HERE, and Ohio Theatre, and has toured Berlin and Dublin. He is currently writing a book called The Organs of Emotion with artist/designer Doug Fitch. Doug Fitch is a designer and writer, whose latest project is designing the home of violinist Joshua Bell and directing and designing Stravinsky’s Histoire du Soldat for the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival. In collaboration with Mimi Oka, he is writing Orphic Fodder, a book documenting a series of events and installations focusing on food as experience in the context of contemporary art. He has pieces in such museums the Brooklyn Museum of Art and London's Blackburn Collection. |